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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. SATURDAY, JULY 2. The Royal Assent was giyen by Commission to the Appropriation, the Assessed Taxes, the,Stamp Duties, the Annuities, .the Ale Licences, the Oyster Fishery, the Scotch Judge's Salaries, the Court of Session Stock, and several other Bills. The Corn irni&sioners were, ,the Lord' Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, and . Lard .Walsinghatu. The other busi-. ness was fotwarded.---Adjourued till Monday.. HOUSE OF COMMONS. SATURDAY, JULY 2. . - The House took into consideration the circum stance of an erasure.,made in the Distillery Bill; :the 'word " England" being erased, and. .the - wards .c Great 'Britain" inserted in its stead, which athetid • rnent did not appear to .have been made by ibeir Lordships. The error was reaitied, and the House agreed to the Bill, as sent from the Lords, and a spe cial entry was ordered to be made on the Journal of the fats. Mr. DuNnAs gave notice that he would; early in the next St siion, make a motion to punish the of fender. In consequence of a Mes'sage by the Usher-of .the Black Rod, the Speaker attended in. the House of - Lords ; on his return, he informed the House that the Royal Assent had been given by Commission to the Appropriation Bill, the Stamp Duty Repeal Bill, the - Assessed Taxes Regulation Bill, the. Annuity Bill, the Oyster Fishery Bill, the •Ale Licences Bill, ' &c. arc. Mr. WILSON took the oaths and.his seat for Great Yarmouth. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER, 12001. was voted to Mr. Wharton,' the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and. Means.— . After a few observations from Mr. Bipput.PH, - The following Sums Were also voted . t„? the Deputy Serjeant at Arms, for the fees dtie . ;fdy the arrest of Members. • • - - •• ten]. to the Speaker's Secret'ary. r ' 20col• to leteonah Dyson: Esq. ClerkOf the House. !vol. to I. ' Lee, Esq. Second Llerk of the.flouse. - soot. to 1 Clementson, Esq. Deputy Serjeant at Arms. 3501. to G. Whitford, .Esq. Clerk of tit,: House. 52.731. to the Trustees of the ,I3rittsh Museprn. .to trt6 Board of ,tlkriculture for County Reports., - • It was also ordered,.that 300 Copies of the inumals shoal - • be printed. PRISONERS IN.IR.ELAND. Mr. SHMi-IDAN rose to address the House on the subjed,of those Petitions which: he had presented from personS coufined on suspicion in I reland e rn4b mitting the subject to the House, hetivould aeish avoid every thing like an ag,graatial representation, ai he Was anxious to see .any thing Jike voluntary i - e- • tnoval, on the part of Governeneot, of .the grievances, complained-of: He - believed thaethe attention of she' House had never beep direEted to 'the state of the Jails in Ireland. A Report on the subject had indeed been bid on the table of the House, which, however,.-he. • believed, not five Members had read. Dnring the, pe riod Of the. last commotions . in Ireland, between. ftcen and . siateen thousand persons had been thrown into prison in that Country, While'of these not ole in five lnindred had been so imprisoned on informationi upon oath. 1-le - hed.received full . proof,' that the treatment which many of them had ex perienced had been of the most disgraceful na ture. They were crowded into cells without any accommodation, Surrounded by filth, and almost in danger of suffocation. Here the Right Honourable 'Gentleman alluded to the cases of Mr. Mason, and several others, from whom 'he had presented Petitions to the House, exposing the .unworthy treatment which they had experieneed.' 'He could state many other cases of hardship, but he did, not at present wish to excite much discussion, or diver-' sity of opinion, as he was anxious that his Motion should obtain ,unanimous support. The Report of Mr. Archer, Inspedor of the Jails 'in Ireland, on the subjed .of these - jails, had ford Considerable time .been before the Holie, but no attention had been paid to it, though this 'Might in part - be — acconnted for from the multiplicity of other business which had crowded on-the-attention. of the House;. and of Zilinisters. 11;r. .Archer, in his neport on these prisons, described in very glowing- terms the seve rity frequently, and infamously,. exercised, 'and the ueglpet of the prisoners' which took place in most of them. The Right Hoo. Gentleman here read a variety of extracts from this Report. Speaking of the jail of Carlow, the Inspee,lor said, the prisoners in general were kept 'ironed, for, the purpose, - as was pretended, of their greater security; and' be 'com plained, that in the County jail of Cavan, ti gaoler, an inhuman fellow, whose condiad he had before witnessed; was, notwithstanding, still continued in office. Mr. Archer had also corn-. planted of abominable frauds and jobbings in the erection otf the County , jail of 'Cork, where the ground marked out for the new jail was Situated in the middle of a swam p, and thus ae_vit ably produdive of levers and agues. The flight Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to notice several other instances of abuSe also to be found in the Report. He wished, however, particularly to call the attention of the House to the jail of Kiimain, ham, where the state prisoners had been mostly con fined. Mr. Mason, an Irish Barrister, and a Mr. Tandy, had both of them piahrshed pamphlets, de tailing the shameful treatment Which they had-then experienced, and their complain ts deserVed the serious attention of Ministers. It was fit that Government Mulct institute a serious inquiry into this'subjeat; and tie particularly recomateedeA an investigation of h'e shameful conduct Of Dr. Trevor, at Kiltnainham, of whose inhuman and Hardeped disposition he, hid many proofs from these Who. bad felt the effeEts. of it, under their te,vn sif•nattirs,. He particularly instanced the death of i7boy, • occasioned by his-re moval when iii a. state of severe indisposition, which removal took placeat the co:Milian& of this Dr. re vole There were Other . cases which he would not at this moment adduce, but which were of anch a na ture, that he felt perfectly' justified in attaching 'to br.Trevor the charge of deliberate murder. He mov ed an humble Address to his Majesty, praying. ' That he would he graciously pleased . to order a Special Cotornis..onfo be appoiiited to examine into the state of the State Prisons and other jails in the City and County of Dub -1 n, and such other as lie may' judge proper, and to e ~ amine into the conduct of those who haa the manastncot of those Prisons." G:neral MATTELgW seconded the Motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHECUItE, though he should not Oppose - the motion', 'yet regretted that it had been deferred to a period when those Membets could not be present who were best informed on the subjed, and .whose information might have been of service in perhaps corre&ing some of those statements which the House 'had heard. He trusted, 'however, that his' own silence, and that of thefioeoni_he subjed of those state ments, would not be construed inio 'any_ acquie scence in their correctness, since it was - riext to 'im possible that they could at present be:combated by any counter - staterneot.s. -He regretted that the' Right Hdnourable Gentleman should'' have! made, such exparte charges against' individuals, who could not \ possibly be heard in their own 'detetice till the next Session' of Parliament. This was certainly dealing out a very hard measure to !these individuals. As to the different 'county jails in Ireland, these Were bf bourse subject to the inspedion and 'kegu ,lation of Grand .fories, in that country, and 'there fore any abuses that might . then, exist . could not properly be mentioned to the discredit and reproach of Government. He then adverted to the inquiry into. the state of Kilmainhain jail that had been made during Lord ' Hardwicke's Administration, which was among the . printed Papers laid before that House in . 1805, .and on which 'it had .not been thought necessary by the House -to take' any steps. Upon the whole, he thought it due to the public feeling, that an opportunity should be given to know the real state of the fads which. !had been represented ; and under that impression!he. assented to the motion, though he • would not be understdod as giving his sanction to the statements that'bad been made. Mr. W. Pock wished that the Honourable Gen.! derma had brought forward his motion when the Irish Members were present, convinced as he was (from his own local knowledge) that. these Merrt. bers would have declared the futility of the state ! , 'tents that had been made. He examined -some of the . Reports, and detected several, misrepresen tations that existed in them. He supported. the motion because it could do no harm, and might do - mach good. Mr. BERESFORD defended the charaaer Trevor, who was geneially esteemed 4a - man of great humanity- and kindness. He had heard ; ..the unfortunate Emmett acknowledge this at the;scaf fold in the warmest terms: . . .. . . Mr. WAlT"nit EAD- thought- tho higl4, ithe debted to his Hon: Friend for the institutioniz, - ,1-an • inquiry, -- from which, in his opinion, a great deal,of•• good would probably result. • . . Colonel VEREKER defended the Magistrates of the County of Galway from any share in the.iMpu tatiOn attempted to be thrown on the whole Country,. • Zr. P. Mootig trusted that the: 'Commission. would be voted for unanimously. He moved, as Ainendment i the addition of the word ,5.." , in Ireland." .• Mr.-SllERilltl'g thanked ; the Hon. Gentleman or for the candbur which his. Motion rieneed. . • -• After• a short explanhtion by Mr. POLE and. the. CHANCELLOR' of the. EXthIEaUER, the Motion, as amended, was agreed to nem. con, • - . Some conversation then took place on the subjea ••pf the - dismissal of the. late Mr. Dalrymple from the -office of Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Weunderstood Mr.. HORNER. to say,. Mottle ab sence of his Noble Friend (Lord . H. Petty), that, he had seen some of the Papers•which passed between.. that-Gentleman , and the Admiralty; and was quite • satisfied that Mr. DalryMple. had been chargeable. with Contumacy in his behaviour; and that th'.!ir LOrdships had a&ed with perfeat. fairness in his dis missal. He therefore should not move for any Pa pers on the subjed. • Mr: W. POLE trusted to the indulgence of the . House, while he shortly stated the proceedings - of the Admiralty in this matter, particularly as he had been alluded to on a former occasion. The Board had, lately formed a plan for transmitting the best Maps.and Charts to bur Fleets on different stations, fbr the most important nautical purposes. Recourse was therefore had to the Office of the Hydrographer of the Board, requiring him to furnish these.varigus Charts. It was stated, however, by Mr. Dalrymple, that he did not feel himself competent. to make a proper selection ; 'and a Committee was accordingly appointed•for that purpoSe, who tbund the Hydro grapher's Office in such a state of confusion and dis order, that it was quite impossible to proceed in the business: On these grounds it became necessary to state to Mr: Dalrymple that it would be requisite for hiM to retire from his situation, that the plans of the Board might not be. defeated. This, however, was .clone.wit h every possible delicacy, from a regard to the feelings of that Gentleman, who . had so much distinguished himself in that 'department of science. The conversation ended here, and the House ad, jonrned. • NIAI LS. ARRIv ED —2 Dublin. aterford. 1.) , ] Gottenburgh, Dublin, I Witerlord. • PRICE OF STOCK`i THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols --7 o Orpniwn - - 3 THE SUN. SOLKM Q,UIS DICE&L lALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 N MONDAY, JULY 4, 1808. The favourable intelligence from Portugal, which we presented to our Readers last weep, is fully con firmed by the Dispatches which,arrived on .Saturday from Sir CHARLES COTTON, ,dated the 16th ult. off the Tagus. The, Portuguese Government is re-es lablished in Oporto. The English have been freely admitted into that Port, and the French are totally subdued. The Portuguese flags were of course flying. Fourteen Vessels from different Countries were lying in the Douro, and they were under ap prehension of being every moment seized by the predatory Power, which is • fortunately overthrown. These Vessels will now be permitted to receive their cargoes of wine, the objea fig which they went to that Port. The first British Ship that 'entered after this 'happy change, was the Eclipse Min of War.— I The Portuguese were highly gratified when the Eclipse, on entering the Port, sainted their. flag 'with guns: The Commander, Captain CRIME, of ter an interview with the Portuguese Governor, has tened to the Tagus, to communicate the joyful tidings to Sir CHARLES COTTON, A body of Portuguese Patriots had surroundell a detachment of French at., St. Übe's, which had been ordered to Lisbon by JUNOT, and in a short time compelled them to sur render. The Spanish troops cordially joined with the Portuguese in this slight action, and manifested a disposition to co-operate in delivering the Country. from French oppression. • Admiral COTTON, in Spite of all the a&ivity of the French at Lisbon, and the dread they inspired, had' found means to carry on an interview with some - of the chief people of that City, who had invited him to enter the River, and get the Russian Squadron into his possession. It was deemed impossible that Juliet' could hold out long. He had under his command about 8000 men, many of whom were Hanoverians, who were by no means attached to the French cause. JUNOT is detested by the inhabi tants for the tyranny he has exercised, and fot the barbarous levity with which•lie has treated the suffer ings of the People, whose injuries and complaints were the objets of his mockery and insult. The Portu guese Patriots were every day rising in confidence and increasing in strength. The events which had taken place at Oporto, where the Spanish forces took the French General and all his Staff, amount , ing to 28 persons,. prisoners, and re-established the former Governor, Louis D'OLIVEDA, in affillOritY, all denote a happy turn of affairs in the whole •Country. It might be supposed that the French Corregidor MoR anticipated some change, since he gave up. the. 'house of the British Consul, Mr . ' WAItRE, with the furniture and•books.uninjured. . The following Letters manifest the truth of what we said . respecting the intercourse which Admiral COTTON had contrived to open with the principal people - of Lisbon, and comprises the last information from . .that quarter : " Hibernia, off the Tagus, june 14. " A Spanish Nobleman and General has just come on board with the agreeable news of the Spa nish Patriots having opened Cadiz to our Fleet; and the consequent occupation of the French Ships in that. harbour., _He also states, that the French and Russian Ships-in the Tpgues would now be in our possession, had not the Spanish Commander, eithe r through fear of JUNOI', or from attachment to him 4cornownicated to him a plan : which the Spanish troops, in concert with the ,people of Lisbon ha() formed for.occupying St. Julien, Mein, &c,— • " JUNOT immediately, disarmed the Sdanish troops and sent 4000 of them on board the hulks in• the river. Sir C. COTTON expects in two days a bOdY of troops from Gibraltar; but l'ioris the nature' of our communication with the shore, we are led . to believe that we shall not have occasion to wait their arrival. Sir C. COTTON has sent a Flag of Truce to_ the Russian Admiral, acquainting him with the re cent important events at OpoitO, and thri.iughout Spain, and proposing, as I understand, to accept the surrender of the Russian Fleet, under the condition restoring it to the mperor on a conclusion of a Peace between the two Countries. " Admiral SINIAVIN, it is added, is allowed till this evening so accede to the proposition, after which, in the event of his ships falling into our hands, they will be considered as prizes. A detach ment of French troops, who were at St. Übes, and ordered by JUNOT to Lisbon, have been surrounded in the passes near Azeitaon, by a body of Portuguese insurgents, assisted by a regiMent of Spanish troops' and after a short contest, compelled to surrender'. The whole Province of Algarve is in arms !" " Ills Majesty's Ship --, oflthe Tagus, June 14,' " A Vessel is jest on the point of sailing with Dispatches. We have opened a communication with Ltabess hoAdrairrsi, I. bavc reason to believe, writes home for a reinfdrcement of troops, to enable him to take possession of it. We are at this mo ment at anchor within, three miles.of the town, ready to embrace the first opportunity of going in ;, were it , not for an at of coniummate.,treachery, we should have been masters of the Russian Squadron some days ago. " A Spanish Officer arrived with direetions to.the- Officer who bad the command of the Spanish Troops, .to rise on the French at a stated time, and with the 'assurance that the Portuguese would join them. Some of the latter, however, communicated the plan . . . to JUNUT, in consequence of which th e Spaniards ,were surrounded, disarmed, l and sent on board the Vessels in the Harbour. The poor. fellow who brought the order, after being fired at and chased for a length of Time, made his escape in a small boat _mid got safe on board our Squadron. Oporto is in , possession of the Portuguese again, and thFre is not a doubt but the whole Coast will shortly tietio.". The spirit of the Portuguese had also laiii -- kicirth at Guarda, yew% Laniego, Miranda, and .other . places, where ;he most violent expressions of hatred ;vrist the French had been heely venter!. This spirit had been powerfully strengthened by the noble Proclamations of the Spanish Patriots, have been rapidly spread through Portugal. lextic was apprised of the noble resistance which had taken place in Spain, and was so well aware of the detesta: tioa in..which the French were held at Lisbon, that be • had deemed it necessary to quit that capital, and esta blish his Head-quarters at the Castle of St. Julien, 3 small distanCe from the City. It is even said that `. his fear of the popular vengeance was so great, th.t he not only disarmed the people of all hostile wea 'pons, but had even taken froni them their ordinary • knives and forks. This feeling is general wherever' thz: French soldiers have been stationee., and the. success of the Portuguese and Spaniards will dra t ; forth similar sentiments whenever the people dare -speak out. There is no confirination of the reported .death of JOSEPH BUONAPARTE, by tile, hand of the Duke Da INViINTA.DO ) and the consequent death •of the latter, as mentioned in a letter to Alder:m:l ATKINS, inserted in our Paper of Saturdai. The new Spanish Documents which our -Readers will find' in Tica SUN of this day, are not less fine:- esting and important than those which we before presented to them. We were the first to intorra the Public of the Proclamation of Peace with this Country which had been issued at Oviedo, and we have ;to-day the pleasure of confirming the pleasing tidings by insetting the article itself. There is' 3 strong proof of the generosity and delicacy of the '! old Spanish chara&er, manifested in the circuin stance of including Sweden in this Pacification, as an Ally of Great Britain, , because the latter had,so nobly, so promptly, and so disinterestedly come for ward, at the - requisition' of the Spaniards, to assist them in resisting the yoke of French oppres sion—Nothing indeed could have been more sea- 1 sonahle than the assistance which this Country has; given on the present oc . ...:asion, and -we have no reason to hope, without . the tear of being deemed over - sanguine, that in assisting Spain Great Britain, has contributed to rescue the several enslaved no tions of Europe from the grasp of the Corsica Usurper. \Ve can add nothing to the melancholy detail of , the massacre which took place at Madrid on the 2d and 3d of May, an event that places the enormous wickedness of the French, in thus but• . cheting a people whom they avowedly came to protect, in a point of view that must, if pos° sible, increase the horror 'and indignation with, Which they are viewed by all mankind. The author kicky of this dreadful narrative cannot be doubted. Letters from the Cape of Good dope, doted the . 16th of April, mention • that Tranquebar is car tared by Sir EDWARD PELLEW'S Squadron. IT has been stated thk the Duke of YORK hi' ekpressed an earnest desire of taking a command of an army to assist, in person, the cause of Spain and Portugal, and was likely to be employed on the occasion. ,We have no reason to believe that thi4 report Jas any foundation in truth. Yeß'erday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses AU' GUST,i, AMELIA, and MARY, accompanied ,by Lord PORthIESTER, and STOrFORD, Generals Frrzaoi. and .GARTI4, Admiral SToPEoRD,, and Lady :ISA' THYNNE, Went to St. George's Chapel, and heard itribn The QUEEN, Princesses ALTG&STA and Etrzioc BETH, heard. Divine Service in the:Palace, and rod e to Frogmore, where they received the KING. The cabinet Council-which met at the. Foreigr ) Office, on Friday, upon the arrival of the dispitcht 4 from Spain, sat from two till half-past six. 1:1 36 Spanish Noblemen attended the Council. Yesterday the Duke of YORK transaded - business at his Office, in the Horse Guards. -DispatcheS were yesterday received from Gen. Sir JOHN MOORE, dated the 23d ult. at which time, l' l3 continued at Stockholm, concerting measures his Swedish Majesty.—The Stockholm Papers of the 22d have been received by this conveyance bo o they contain not a sin g l e art i c l e of news, either trorls Finland or Norway. Th e B r i t i s h . troops GoiniutiO, on board the transports at Gottenburgh, watting.o return of Gen. MOORE from. &ocknolin. Colonel DOYLE, of the 87111-74sk i ,"e r „„4.c or fe KENNEDY, of the 95th, lett town yesterday 2 fier' , ' noon, for Portsmouth, from whence they are 10 ' accompany the Spanish Prisoners to the coast oi, Spain. We understand they are also entrusted witiY . ' an important political mission to the Patriotic Chiefs' . The Court Martial on . the American Contniod , f° BARRON, for his affair with the Leopard, has add, judged him;to have been guilty of not . making t1 1 ° : necessary preparations for the defence of the Clof". apeake, and haTsentenced.hirnto he suspended trogl;' all command in the American Na'vy for five yeao , . anct without pay, to be coniptitvd from the Bth'or February last. The President of the Uniteu•S'tate s ,, has .confirmed tl.is sentence'. On SatUrday the whole fashionable world rendel: sotid at the delightful villa at Winaledon, by cara' •ofinviiation, to the /6 Br;.;;,t62st given tfieColultphs SPENcEtt. - NearlY 2000.pefsi.us 10 first distinction were present. _ . Orders were sent to Chatham, last Thursday, t ° , Ship every sort of Ordnance Stor es , N..;tlt . 9uti a ttio" meat's delay,,for the use. of the: Spanish Patrots."'" Seven hundred tons of guns and mortars hate been 'ordered at Woolwich, in addition to sev'en' h t uodre d 'and twenty tons previously ordered. In the 'e'our ,e T Oithe day, 2o waggons were also loaded at the 13a1; With money, supposed to be intended:tor tilt:. sabl e `destination.